dxgettext and Windows 10

Question

Has anyone got dxgettext running under Windows 10?

I installed dxgettext from the offical homepage under Windows 10, which worked fine.

But whenever I try to run some of the installed tools (e.g. msgfmt.exe), they don't really run, but call themselves again, generating thousands of processes and making the system crawl.

This is what happens:

• I call msgfmt --help
• the executable msgfmt hangs, blocking the command window
• in the TaskManager I see houndreds of msgfmt.exe processes popping up

I think, I have to replace the gettext tools of the dxgettext package with some newer version but before trying to figure it out I first wanted to ask if someone else experienced similar problems and found a working solution.

My questions:

Has anyone got the tools coming with dxgettext running under Windows 10?

What steps have been necessary to get it to run?

Answer 1

I resolved the problem in the following way:

1. I downloaded https://github.com/mlocati/gettext-iconv-windows/releases/download/v0.19.8.1-v1.14/gettext0.19.8.1-iconv1.14-static-32.zip from https://mlocati.github.io/articles/gettext-iconv-windows.html

2. I replaced the following files from the installation directory of dxgettext with files from the zip archive:

   msgattrib.exe
   msgcat.exe
   msgcmp.exe
   msgcomm.exe
   msgconv.exe
   msgen.exe
   msgexec.exe
   msgfilter.exe
   msgfmt.exe
   msggrep.exe
   msginit.exe
   msgmerge.exe
   msgunfmt.exe
   msguniq.exe
   xgettext.exe
   

Result:

• Dxgettext and the tools, I use, seem to work fine. I found no problems with my workflow so far, with one exception:

• If I use assemble to embed mo-files into an exe compiled with JvGnugettext.pas, I get the following error:

  Pach code “6637DB2E-62E1-4A60-AC19-C23867046A89” was not found in .exe file. Are you sure the .exe file has been compiled with the correct libraries?

  This may not be related to the original problem. However, it is resolved by replacing the original assemble.exe with the version from https://sourceforge.net/p/dzlib/code/HEAD/tree/buildtools/trunk/ (see answer by @dummzeuch).

Answer 2

The installer on the official home page is pretty old. Last time I looked it contained several outdated dlls and executables from the original gnugettext project that did not work correctly under recent Windows versions. You could take those from my buildtools repository on OSDN. These work for me. No guarantee that they work for you though.

https://osdn.net/projects/dzlib-tools/scm/svn/tree/head/buildtools/trunk/